WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It started as child’s play. In 1996, Nathan Cohen took his son’s beach sand molds and coated them with copper tape, making a new class of 3D structures: folded ...

When you think of origami, the first thing that may come to your mind is a children's pastime, and creations such as simple cranes, frogs or other animals, and maybe a boat or a paper hat. In fact, ...

There was a time when there was no 3D printers and origami was the key to creating lifelike forms out of a flat surface. The art of origami- folding, collapsing, flexing and unfurling structures at ...

Long before the 3D printer, origami was the original genius at creating lifelike forms out of a flat surface. Folding brings with it the ability to collapse, flex and unfurl structures at will, which ...

If you find yourself without a stand for your iPhone or iPod but have a $100 bill or even a one dollar bill in your wallet, you can create a neat little stand using a bit of origami. This clever trick ...

Here’s a fun exercise – take a piece of paper and use a compass to draw two concentric circles that define a ring. Then replace the pencil in the compass with a hard tip to indent a concentric crease ...

A new algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure. In a 1999 paper, Erik Demaine -- now an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, but then ...

Now, he designs and folds pieces for collectors and art galleries, while contributing to a growing field of practical applications in space research, medical technology and other fields. “There’s been ...

The intersection of art and technology is a fascinating place, and researchers often use works of art to practice or demonstrate techniques that can have more practical applications later on.

John Varrasi is a senior staff writer for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Featured engineers Mary Frecker and Larry Howell are ASME Fellows. Varrasi contributed this article to ...